NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the forecast out of service date is for each nuclear power station; and what the power output is for each such power station. [154987]

Michael Fallon, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise: The scheduled closure dates for each nuclear power station and the net generation capacity for each such power station is detailed in the table below. The Government do not publish data on output at individual plant level.

Table of past and present UK nuclear reactors

Net capacity (MW) Number of operating reactors Published lifetime
Magnox (NDA)
Wylfa 490 1 1971 to 2014
AdvancedGasCooled Reactor (AGR) -British Energy
Heysham 1 1,155 2 1989 to 2019
Hinkley Point B 810 2 1976 to 2023
Hunterson B 890 2 1976 to 2023
Dungeness B 1,040 2 1985 to 2018
Hartlepool 1,180 2 1989 to 2019
Heysham 2 1,220 2 1989 to 2023
Torness 1,185 2 1988 to 2023
Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) - British Energy
Sizewell B 1,198 1 1995 to 2035
Total net capacity and number of operatingreactors 9,168 16

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